Seymour Duncan HyperSwitch Video Manual #4: HyperSwitch App Guide

How do I set HyperSwitch up with the app? The HyperSwitch is controllable via Bluetooth and the HyperSwitch mobile app. This is where you can change your pickup configurations as well as the switch configurations. In this video, we’ll walk you through all the settings of the HyperSwitch app, how to configure your guitar settings and make new settings and presets.

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[seymourduncan]

Thanks for checking out this video everyone! For more information about the HyperSwitch, check out these links:

[StratsRUs]

I have so much admiration for the brainy people that are at the vanguard of guitar sounds.
I only just bought a Powerstage too.. and I adore it !! 😊

[philipp]

best idea would be to add a mini switch (2 or 3 way) along with the 5 way. with which you can select different presets, so you could have upt to 10 or 15 different options

[eloann]

This would be especially interesting on a guitar with swappable pickups (Relish, Somnium...) to offer switching options relevant to the each configuration

[bSharpCreativeVideo]

This looks incredible! I had a Line 6 Variax for a time and loved the ability to program patches for the 5 way. One idea, and probably would increase the footprint a bit, but a rechargeable version where you plug in a USB charger (probably with a small mod to the pickguard, or maybe on the switch itself). That way you wouldn't have to take off the pickguard to change the battery.

[glennguy]

This seems like a great product but from reading the manual there looks like a glaring omission in functionality, but please correct me if I've got this wrong...

Why is there no option to have two pickup coils wired in-phase and parallel to each other?

Several of my Ibanez HH guitars come from the factory for example with position 5 as the neck humbucker in series, and position 4 as the neck humbucker in parallel (in phase).

The manual suggests coils can only run in parallel when out of phase (shows as yellow).

Plus there's other options that seem to be unavailable. For example running the bridge and neck humbuckers in series with each other. I'm assuming that you can only run pickups in parallel with other pickups? Can you run south pole of neck pickup in series with north pole of bridge?


Maybe an 'advanced' mode?

[Tiger.]

The one thing holding this brilliant idea back from perfection is the ability to partially tap a coil. This is commonly done these days by most of the major manufactures for partially tapping humbuckers instead of fully splitting and turing one of the coils 100% off because the result is much more usable and less anemic.

All that would need to be done to make this possible is have the ability to have an extra wire running out of the switch that is intended to be run to ground. This wire would only be activated when one of the coils is being tapped/run to ground. Then a user could decide if they want to wire in a resistor in series prior to connecting this cable to ground.

I personally would either use this in a spin-a-split manner using a volume/tone pot as a variable resistor to vary the amount of partial tapping for the selected coil, or I would uses a push/pull or mini switch to provide some pre-fixed options.

Nonetheless, this is a very exciting product and it would be even more so if there was a LP style toggle option too, especially if that was also a 6 position switch (i.e. like the Freeway Ultra switch).

[jorisguitars]

I could see a future Ibanez AZ use this in the future.

[ChrrZ]

that is pretty amazing! i see lots of possibillites for some of my studio guitars!

[louhudson]

No More soldering or trying out sets that in the end are no good. You can try everything and save what you want and ditch the rest. Total game changer! Can't wait to get one!

[chrisharr]

Great in the studio if you are looking for a unique tone to compliment whatever tune is are playing for.

[martyshwaartz]

I’ll 100% be buying this thing and installing it once SD add the capability to put two single coils in series with eachother, which doesn’t appear to be an option right now. Seems like a massive oversight considering that free way already offers this.

[Mr.Goldbar]

I wanna install it on some of my guitars as soon as it becomes available!

I have a few questions though.
1. Will the switch need to be connected to the app at all times in order to work properly? or are all the presets installed inside the system itself? (i.e. TC Electronic's Toneprint)
2. Do you have plans to release push pull and mini toggle extensions for this? that will be a cool way to change presets on the fly :)

edit: I saw you already answered the first question on another guy's comment, that's great to hear!

[daveylee]

Call me cheap, but I spent $10 on 3 switches for my HSH guitar. The buckers go thru on/off/on DPDT’s and the middle single pup has an on/off push button latching switch. Neck pup- split or full, and bridge pup in/out phase. 13 distinct switch options and independent wiring (3 vol. controls) that enable pickup blending and make that out of phasing sound amazing! Master dual tone. User friendly layout with old school tech. 🥃🍺

[pavlospapanastasatos]

The idea is really killer. It can unlock all the possibilities which is amazing, especially when you want to try different sounds in the studio. And while you are not meant to change wirings on stage, I do have two concerns though: 1. It seems impossible to have split coil switch in HSH guitars. 2. modified tone controls. For example, I have one double pot as sole tone control which works like all other pots from 1-5 Hi-cut and from 5 to 10 like a lo-cut. If I put the hyperswitch I don't think that I could have the tone working like it does now.

The split coil option is very common, but the tone pot issue can be even more important, as in my experience, the modified tone control made a big difference in the sound.

[liamtahaney]

This is amazing! Wow. I currently have a guitar with a 3 way toggle and 3 mini switches. This would make all those holes completely unnecessary. Hope a 3 way toggle switch version is in the works. I will be the first in line.

[natemendsen]

This would be infinitely more interesting with the ability to have one pickup go to a different out than the other(s) .It would open up a whole lot more options that would remedy the need for external switching for stuff like single coils in series or humbuckers in parallel .Im guessing that really ups the complexity depending on what is being used to do all it does already

[jyflrnz]

Wow, I need an account, and they need my information, just to flip my switch.

[jean-philippemorin]

This would need midi switching option, to switch the pixkups at the same time as your patches on your modeler live, as example. Lots of people uses computer to automaticcaly change their patches live. Just throwing out ideas. ;)

[KVANTdoo]

How long will battery last (guitar plugged and played)? How does it act when the battey is dead? Does it warn you before dead battery? (with dead battery it should work as normal switch - is that possible?)
It would be also fine if you could set up volume for every position. In that case you could adjust single to be as loud as humbucker and all in/out phase also or to just give some push from pickup.
It is a great idea and I will buy it. (I have it in my shopping basket already :D)